Fifty Six is a card game which originated from Kerala, a southern
state of India, and is very popular in the southern part of the country. It is most
prevelant among educated men especially with careers in Engineering, Law and Business, as
the game calls for sharp intelligence, good acumen and powers of memory and concentration

To promote
the game of Fifty Six through the Internet, a club has been formed. Here is an invitation
for all interested players to join the club. For joining or to know more
details, kindly contact nalinap@hotmail.com

Card
games have continued to fascinate mankind for centuries now, the world over. Take a closer
look and you will find thousands of variations of games using playing cards.You must have
certainly heard about the whist family of card games. It is being referred as a
family because these are ever so many variations of whist games popular in
different parts of the world. A simple game of whist is the simple two-handed
whist. Then comes the knockout whist, which is equally popular. German whist
is yet another whist game. Partnership whist is a whist game played by two teams of
two players each. Solo whist is a game for four people and considered a gambling
game. Napoleon (Nap) is also such a gambling whist game. One of the most widely
played game of whist family is the Bridge and the best-known version is known as Contract
Bridge. (Actually the game of contract Bridge was preceded by a simpler game called Auction
Bridge).There are other
card games which are popular in some parts of the world only. Some of the best known are CLOBBIOSH
and BELOT, BLACK MARIA, PIQUET, FIVE HUNDRED, POKER, BRAG, CASSINO, THE RUMMY FAMILY,
KALUKI GIN RUMMY, CANASTA, CRIBBAGE, PONTOON etc.

You may not have heard of some of these card games
but it is more than likely that some variation of the games is being played in your part
of the world. May be you call it by some other sweet name.In spite of these
variations, luckily a pack of cards is the same the world over.Card games can be broadly divided into three
categories. The firstcategory is those games
in which one can participate as an individual only. A good example of such a game would be
rummy. The second

category is the games where one has to have one or more partners to play
a game. There are games in which you can participate as an individual or as a member of a
team which constitute the third category. But irrespective of the card game you play, you
think of cards and the first thing that comes to your mind is the element of luck. It is
easy to see why. In card games you receive cards from a shuffled pack and the probability
of getting a particular card is just 1/52 if you are playing with a single pack of cards.
When you get the right cards that help you win, that probability is your luck.Luck alone is not enough to play most games. You
need skills which is a combination of memory, mathematics and some commonsense.'FIFTY SIX' is a game which
requires all the above skills. 'Fifty Six' is a partnership game, and all
partnership games require excellent memory. As you go ahead discovering this game
you will find that 'Fifty Six' can not only help i